Houses and Homes - The Eighteenth Melted Fabrics Craft Challenge

What about a soft sculture fabric house? Could you even make a bag that looks like a little fabric house?

Consider making a dolls house - how could you do this with textiles?

Perhaps you just want to make a textiles piece featuring houses - think about the traditional looking cross stitch samplers with houses on them - how could you take this idea and make it more contemporary?

Cute house design by churchto12
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Drawings like this one are super cute. Could you make a pattern out of some simple house drawings?

Houses in a Row by Krissy_B
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Check out the interesting details on this house. If you're not feeling the house theme, then why not look at some architecture - can you find any interesting features or details that would look great in textiles form?

Siberian wooden houses (project by vladstudio.com) by vladstudio
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How about picking a picture of a house and imagining who lives there - then make a project based on your invented story.

Siberian wooden houses (project by vladstudio.com) by vladstudio
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How about making a whimsical map of your neighbourhood?

Way Downtown by Krissy_B
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What about a haunted house? Could you base a project on that?

Altadavin Glen by CowboyCraic
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The images below are of a textiles house project I started years ago.

The sides of the house and the roof were supposed to fit around a foam block but I gave up on this project and threw out the foam a while ago. Since then I've been considering how I can use these textiles pieces to make a finished items.

My ideas have included:

A stuffed house cushion

Making some kind of book where each page is a different room in the house.

This piece was made by attaching the front of the house to a square canvas and then sewing the roof on afterwards.

The fence was made out of those little wooden corner things you get with painters' canvases.

Perhaps interiors interest you more than exteriors.

How about focusing on an object - I covered an arm chair with my textiles a while back.

What about making a rug or a quilt for your own house?

If you want a small project then how about working on a bird house.

Perhaps you could make a decorative fabric bird house.

If you prefer paper craft to sewing then how about collaging onto an actual birdhouse?

Consider unusual houses and unusual materials for making houses.

What about light houses? They're often used as themes in craft work.